I mean really, how do you let go?

So I have told a few people but why not just put it out there. Around April I will be moving up to the Maryland / Virginia area for a new position in life. Later on in the year, June/July my wife and kids should be soon to follow. Me with a position out of Herndon, VA temporarily and then at Quantico, and my wife with a position out of Fort Meade, Maryland.

Anyways I bring this up as very soon I'm going to run into a few issues I have been really kidding myself with. 1) Moving my load of comic's without allowing a mover to touch them and 2) the expense of it all. Priorities might be backwards there...

So in moving and seeing this daunting task about to come to light I at first am thinking about how in the world do I move it all from point A to point B. Do I really make my wife give me the "Really Kaholo???" face in which she doesn't say it but I know exactly what's going through her mind? Or do I look at trimming my collection down. Do I really take a look at my Registry Sets and say to myself... well, I don't really collect Fantastic Four but...? Or do I look at weeding out art that while cool, can I really afford to put all of it on a wall now that we are looking to move like I hadn't planned until getting this new opportunity. I mean I don't really see a lot of what I collect as overly valuable. If anything I see it as 80's - 90's Modern with a few touches here and there with Bronze and Silver. So "Cashing In" just doesn't seem like the overly wise thing to do unless really all I'm trying to do is drop dead weight.

Heck, I don't think I will ever look to slab my collection of Generation X nor do I see any chance of getting more than 20 bucks out of the lot. I figured later on when my son was about 7 -- 10 he could have them and read of the cool heroes I enjoyed within the pages.

The point is how do you decide how to lose the treasures you so lovingly hold?

I have never collected with the thought of selling, and the whole reason we bought a house in the first place was because we were setting down some permanent roots. But now it just seems like this daunting task of what to do is coming up and forcing me to become a hypocrite...

The second part, financially, its... about... to... get... expensive... We are about to go through the dual household thing so financially it's all about to become a burden anyways. We planned and have saved and will be fine, but for a while my collection is about to become stagnant. X-Force is going to stay where it is, Avengers vs X-Men is going to reign supreme at the number 3 slot... and my hugely favorite additions of Blank Cover Art is going to sit idle. Can I really ask myself to hold off on purchasing anything...? I mean of course the answer will undoubtedly become yes by force and not by choice. But if I wanted to gain some new treasures for the collection it would have to be done through a side funding and not earned income. I would officially need to sell some things to make room for others.

This then circles back around to the question previously asked, how do you decide how to lose those same treasures you've built up over time?

Then again which ones do you decide to let go of?

Sucks to say, but it looks like I am about to revisit last year's fun conversation of taking it with me to the grave list.

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